Attention!!! Pro Sports Daily will be down on Wednesday morning from 5:00am - 7:00am eastern time for database maintenance. All Sports Direct Inc. properties will be down during this scheduled outage.
Sorry for any inconvenience that this outage may cause.

If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

YouTube Kills Billions of Video Views Faked By Music Industry

The video service deleted more than 2 billion fake video views in the channels of Universal, Sony, and RCA, according to Daily Dot. The decision apparently was made when YouTube found out that the companies were using view building services hired from sites such as Fiverr to create video views that never existed.

Doesn't surprise me considering a lot of labels have been buying their own albums to boost sales for a long time. It's just about creating momentum and hopefully the public buys into it.

Another example is radio. Labels aren't suppose to be able to pay the radio stations to play their artists so to get around that they give them gifts. Again, once the song catches the ear of the masses, they start requesting it on their own and you end up with a popular song.

Doesn't surprise me considering a lot of labels have been buying their own albums to boost sales for a long time. It's just about creating momentum and hopefully the public buys into it.

Another example is radio. Labels aren't suppose to be able to pay the radio stations to play their artists so to get around that they give them gifts. Again, once the song catches the ear of the masses, they start requesting it on their own and you end up with a popular song.

You may already know this but for everyone else who doesn't, this is why the job title "independent record promoter" exists. Basically, labels pay these guys to pay out the radio stations in the form of "promotional assistance" basically operating and other such costs that the radio station would normally have to pay themselves, essentially creating a middleman and legal loophole around the "no pay-to-play" law. It's really a sweet gig, wish I knew how to break into it.